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British High Commissioner to Australia Vicki Treadell believes England’s Lionesses have a vital role to play in the diplomatic mission of fighting for the rights of women and girls around the world.England players on Tuesday released a collective statement, posted on Twitter by captain Millie Bright, outlining their “disappointment” in not reaching an agreement with the Football Association over performance bonus payments and commercial structures ahead of their World Cup opener against Haiti in Brisbane.That fight, they said, was driven not solely by personal gain but by “a strong sense of responsibility to grow the game” globally – a sentiment reiterated by numerous players over the last few days in the Queensland capital.

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00:00 [City sounds]
00:07 Well I think because they are personalities, they have a profile,
00:12 it's part of the much broader global agenda of closing the gender pay gap.
00:18 In your profession, in my profession, women are still behind the men.
00:22 We must all work together to say that is wrong.
00:25 If we're doing the same job we should have equal pay.
00:28 So if they voice that, we voice that, it's about pushing that
00:34 and getting people to sit up and say absolutely that is about equality, that is about fairness.
00:39 I'm hugely proud because if you have a platform you should use it for global good.
00:45 I think the lionesses are doing just that.
00:48 I think it's the conversation that you have because global eyes are on Australia and New Zealand
00:54 in the next two months. So everything anyone representative of what's going on says
01:01 and able to address wider issues that matter, it's a global audience that's watching us right now.
01:08 Why waste that opportunity? It is. It is played on every continent.
01:14 The English Premier League, the Women's Soccer League in the UK,
01:18 and that's what we should focus on now, has a global audience.
01:24 It's a great soft power asset. More people watch British football than any other nation's football.
01:31 So for us, they are amazing brand ambassadors entering every home,
01:36 whether through the radio or on the web or on mobile phones or on the TV.
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